It's official. Dismissed as a silly rumour by many, Nokia and Micorsoft have just announced a very comprehensive partnership in which Windows Phone 7 will become Nokia's prime smartphone platform. It goes a lot deeper than that, though. Update:Qt will not be available for Windows Phone 7. Qt will remain the development platform for MeeGo and Symbian. Update II: During its Capital Market Day event, Elop confirmed Nokia will not make a comprehensive MeeGo product line. It will be a platform to learn from, but it won't become a competitive platform. Update III: Android was not an option because it would be difficult to differentiate there. Update IV: There will be 'substantial reductions in employment' in Finland and around the world. Also, before I forget, thanks Engadget for the live-blogging where I get this stuff from!

Meego is another dead end Intel project like Larrabee. Everybody knows it. It's a good project that is burning money and never happening.

I disagree: there are good technical reasons why Larrabee cannot compete with high-end GPUs(*), while Meego is only software..

*the GPUs have far higher memory bandwith, so to workaround this issue, software must be coded differently to be efficient on Larrabee and the like : ergo current software won't run very well on Larrabee and the like..

Negative. Larrabee was plagued with incompetent employees wasting away millions of investment dollars. It was a people problem just like Nokia and it's Meego OS.

Everybody knew once Moblin became Meego, the project was going to fail hard. It went from a Clutter nettop/netbook OS to some onesize fits all OS then to a QT phone OS. As for QT, it'll live on with Symbian and KDE.